Allie Hamilton

Yeah.

You have the visceral, sweeping historical romance in the past, right? Starring Ryan Gosling as Noah and Rachel McAdams as Allie.

And then acting as the structural pillar holding all of that up, you have the present day timeline, the one featuring cinematic legends James Garner and Gena Rowlands.

Exactly.

Noah is the local working class kid who, you know, works with his hands.

Right.

And Allie is the wealthy heiress.

Her family just summers in his town, essentially treating the local economy like their personal playground.

It changes something while keeping it all intact.

And what- one of the things that stood out to me a lot when we were seeing it last night was that there was such a heavy emphasis on older Allie and older Noah and their journey even more so than you saw in, like, the movie.

That made it more about, like, we talked about this last season too, legacy and, like, what do we leave behind and, like, what is stands the test of time, those kinda things, and, like, um, uh, memory and, and, like, how that, how does that play a factor in all of this.

Instead of focusing just on, like, kinda, like, the romance aspect of, like, being rekindled love, finding each other again, th- which not, not saying that that's bad for the movie, but I think that's, like, the movie's identity is, like, the love story, which th- this one almost felt like the love story was second nature to the story of growing older and worried about losing what we do love, if that makes any sense.

Yes

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in that one, he's talking to his therapist, and he's kind of exploring his life, um, where this one definitely felt like you're kinda calling back to Allie's memories or you-- like, she's trying to, like, pull something and, you know, you also have Noah kind of remembering.

I mean, you have all these different pieces, and so you get, like, this memory story that I think works actually a lot better here than it did in A Beautiful Noise, which is one of the positives I think of The Notebook is that this story lends itself very well to, like, being a memory story.

A local working class young man who reads poetry and works at the lumberyard.

And Allie Nelson, a wealthy heiress summering in the town with her deeply class conscious family.

They experience an incredibly intense, immersive summer romance, but it is fundamentally doomed by their disparate social standings.

At the end of the summer, they are forced apart.

Noah writes her a letter every single day for a year.

But Allie's mother systematically intercepts and hides every single one of them.

them.It is the ultimate tragic misunderstanding

Allie thinks he forgot her.